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Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald

Every weekday join the new voice of local issues on Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald, 9am-12pm weekdays.It’s all about the conversation with John, as he gets right into the things that get our community talking.If it’s news you’re after, backing John is the combined power of the Newstalk ZB and New Zealand Herald news teams. Meaning when it comes to covering breaking news – you will not beat local radio.With two decades experience in communications based in Christchurch, John also has a deep

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9:18

Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the Health NZ...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/08

Labour leader Chris Hipkins claims the Government's failure to compensate for the nurses’ pay rise has driven Health New Zealand's budget blowout. The agency's finances jumped from an expected half-a-billion dollar surplus to a $1.4 billion deficit in April. It's now expected to blow out to $1.76 billion. Chris Hipkins told John MacDonald that there's a mix of issues in the system, but under-funding's definitely playing a role in the deficits. He says nurses won their pay equity claim after a

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6:20

John MacDonald: Let's not keep running down our...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/08

I think we need to see the New Zealand Navy ship sinking as a wake-up call. Not the sinking itself, but what it’s going to mean for our Navy and our wider defence force. The fact that we’re probably going to lose a truckload of money because of the ship being under-insured isn’t an issue for me and I wasn’t overly surprised when Finance Minister Nicola Wilis confirmed it yesterday. Because can you imagine the premiums versus the likelihood of a sinking? So I think the insurance thing is a bit of a

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5:47

John MacDonald: New legislation is more ram-raid than...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/07

The Government's fast track legislation is shaping up to be a real cluster. Especially, in Greater Christchurch. I think some of the projects it wants to get going here sooner rather than later are making its new legislation more ram-raid than fast track. So it's released details of 149 projects that will be included in the Bill which, it says, is being done to help rebuild the economy, sort out the housing crisis, improve energy security, and do something about the state of our infrastructure. But,

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18:37

Politics Friday: National's Vanessa Weenink and...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/04

Today on Politics Friday, John MacDonald was joined by National’s Vanessa Weenink and Labour’s Tracey McLellan to discuss the biggest political stories of the week. On today's agenda was Health NZ’s nearly $1 billion deficit – how does the Government get them out of this hole? Are private-public partnerships the answer? Is it time to stop people building homes in 'dumb places' as the insurance council has this week asked? And will we start to see a conversation across all parties around the

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7:16

John MacDonald: Chief exec's pay cut is a statement...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/04

I don’t know whether Mary Richardson is a martyr or a mug. But, I tell you what, the acting chief executive at Christchurch City Council has shown outstanding leadership, not just outstanding leadership - she’s also shown outstanding political nous with this $100,000 pay cut. She demanded it because of the financial pressures the council and ratepayers are dealing with, which I believe has gone down very well with staff. Not just because of that, but also because, generally people at the council

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5:43

John MacDonald: The anti-food truck argument doesn't...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/03

I think the hospitality outfits trying to shut down the Arts Centre’s plans to have more food trucks on-site need to pull their heads in. Annabelle Turley from the Central City Business Association has made the bold demand that the council pull its funding from the Arts Centre if the food truck thing goes ahead. This all goes back to the city council not providing as much ratepayer funding in its 10-year budget as the Arts Centre had asked for. And so the Arts Centre accepted that and got on with

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7:55

Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor discusses the Arts...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/10/02

Christchurch's Mayor isn't swayed either way on a clash between city hospitality and food trucks. The Arts Centre Trust is applying for up to 33 food trucks to operate on the site. The Central Business Association says that's unfair, given businesses subsidise the centre and commercial rates are higher than residential. Mayor Phil Mauger told John MacDonald he sees both sides. He says with the museum closed the Centre will want to get money, but 7 days a week is a big shift. LISTEN ABOVESee

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5:23

John MacDonald: Why are we building in dumb places?

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/30

Stop building houses in dumb places. That’s the message the Insurance Council is giving the Government. That bit about “dumb places” isn’t me paraphrasing, by the way. They’re not my words. They’re the exact words the Insurance Council is using after the Government confirmed that changes to the Resource Management Act are one of the 43 things in its final quarterly action plan for the rest of the year. And when I heard that, the first dumb place I thought of was New Brighton, in Christchurch. In

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4:44

John MacDonald: I'm with the teachers on this one

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/27

I’m glad I’m not a teacher today. If I’m honest, I’m glad I’m not a teacher every day. Couldn’t do it. But I’m especially glad after this ham-fisted announcement by Associate Education Minister David Seymour that, if schools want to have teacher-only days, they’re going to have to have them outside term time. Which is essentially telling the teachers that if they want to have any sort of professional development or training, they need to do it during their own time. They have to chew up some of

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18:34

Politics Friday with Nicola Grigg and Duncan Webb:...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/27

Today on Canterbury Mornings, John MacDonald was joined by Duncan Webb and Nicola Grigg for Politics Friday. On the agenda: how does National defend what has been labelled an attack on teachers with changes to teacher-only days? Was the Government too ambitious with its plans for the Dunedin hospital? How will this impact medical students in Otago? And the Selwyn Mayor says his district will be bigger than Dunedin in ten years, and withChristchurch’s population set to boom - is our infrastructure up

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5:53

John MacDonald: Population growth is fine, but are we...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/26

When you look around Greater Christchurch, do you look around and think “oh, we could handle another 100-or-so thousand people living here”? Do you think to yourself “our roads aren’t clogged up, our schools aren’t overcrowded, we’ve got plenty of houses”? Do you think that? Or does it feel to you like we’re just getting by with what we’ve got, with the population we’ve got? I think we’re just getting by and, if we don’t wake up, we’re going to be another Auckland before we know it. There are a

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5:30

John MacDonald: Where it all went wrong for Andrew...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/25

What about all the weasel words we’ve been hearing from the Government about Andrew Coster? Who’s stepping down from the job of Police Commissioner to head the Government’s new Social Investment Agency. He’s leaving the police force a bit earlier than expected. He was due to stand down in April and, if I was a suspicious person, I’d see this as a win-win for him and the Government. Because, despite all the platitudes coming from the Beehive, the Government is going to be delighted that he’s moving

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7:32

Carmel Sepuloni: Deputy Labour Leader discusses...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/24

Labour still isn't ruling a capital gains tax in or out, following comments from the boss of our biggest bank. ANZ CEO Antonia Watson says while she isn't jumping for joy about the prospect of a capital gains tax, the time has come to for a tax on realised gains. Labour's Carmel Sepuloni told John MacDonald that Watson is just another example, of a prominent figure who's now open to the idea. She says she Labour hasn't made any decision either way but is reviewing its progressive tax policy. The

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5:34

John MacDonald: People are time-wasters in and out of...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/24

I don’t know where Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis get this idea from that you can only do a hard day’s work if you’re physically in the office or on the premises, as opposed to working remotely from home. Because, from my experience, there is a hell of a lot of time wasted in a lot of workplaces. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister and the Public Service Minister are giving government workers a rev-up and telling them to get their act together, get out of the tracksuit pants, have a shower, put

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5:42

John MacDonald: Here's why ECAN speedster needs to...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/23

ECAN regional council chair Peter Scott has to go. You’ll remember the fuss earlier this year when he admitted to Newstalk ZB that he’d been farming illegally on his South Canterbury property without the appropriate consents. And how, after that blunder, he disappeared for a while - ECAN spent $66,000 on a 10-week investigation - and then he was back again. All G. Well, not “all G” actually, because it’s now been revealed that he’s been hooning it in the car the council - or ratepayers - provide

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11:04

Cosentino: World-renowned illusionist on how magic...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/23

World-renowned illusionist and 'International Magician of the Year', Cosentino, is bringing his spectacular new live show Decennium to Christchurch in November. Decennium is a 90-minute stage spectacular, which was written, produced, and choreographed by Cosentino. He'll perform his most death-defying escapes that will thrill your senses, his greatest mind-boggling stage illusions and cutting-edge street magic that twists your view of reality. He spoke to John MacDonald on Canterbury Mornings about

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6:27

John MacDonald: What's the Christchurch Council's...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/20

It seems to me that the Christchurch City Council has really got it in for the Arts Centre. For starters, when the Arts Centre asked for $20 million in council support over the next 10 years, the council said “yeah, nah” and gave it just under $6 million instead. Now, it wants to sting the Arts Centre $18,000 for increasing the number of food trucks operating there. The council says the charge is for “added stress” on its transport network that will be caused by the extra food trucks rolling

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5:26

John MacDonald: The police have won the Comanchero...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/18

With nearly every Comanchero gang member in this country facing criminal charges, is this the beginning of the end for this Australian outfit’s New Zealand operation? They set-up shop here six years ago and have been helped enormously by Australia’s 501 deportation programme, but it’s not as if the gang’s been operating here just to give these guys something to do once they get off the plane from Sydney. Have no doubt, the Comancheros are here because they see it as a great place to make money. If

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6:10

John MacDonald: Where's the justice in concurrent...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/17

Nothing brings out the redneck in me as much as a judge handing out a concurrent prison sentence. You know the situation. A person’s found guilty on, say, two charges —let’s say they get two-year sentences for each— but they don’t go to prison for two years plus two years (four years), instead, they serve the sentences concurrently. Meaning they’re serving both sentences at the same time. It’s something the Government is turning its attention to with these tougher sentencing laws it’s cracking on

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5:25

John MacDonald: More ludicrous council spending in...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2024/09/16

The Christchurch City Council has learned nothing from the cathedral debacle. Because it’s now going to spend $19.5 million over the next four years, so that work can start on repairing and restoring the old provincial chambers building in the centre of town. $19.5 million. Nearly twice as much ratepayer money as what was going to go into the cathedral. To get things started on a repair job which is expected to cost around $200 million. I get it. It's got history. It's very relevant in terms of

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